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Petco Breach Exposes Millions: SSNs Lost
12 Dec, 2025
Summary
- Petco data breach potentially exposed millions of customers' sensitive personal data.
- Arizona is suing Temu, alleging unlawful harvesting of user data without consent.
- Ransomware payments by US companies have surpassed $4.5 billion.
A major data breach at Petco has raised concerns, with potentially millions of customers' sensitive information, including Social Security numbers, name, date of birth, and financial details, exposed. The company is notifying affected individuals and advising them to watch for phishing scams.
In a separate development, Arizona is taking legal action against the e-commerce platform Temu. The state's attorney general accuses Temu of unlawfully collecting more user data than necessary, including personal information, without adequate consent, violating consumer protection laws.
Furthermore, ransomware attacks continue to pose a significant threat to businesses, with US companies having paid over $4.5 billion to attackers. The UK's National Cyber Security Centre also warns that prompt injection, a method of exploiting AI, may be an unfixable security problem.
